Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom dignity and enormous capacity for survival.

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

The surrealists and the modern movement in painting as a whole seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi raise aphids as livestock launch armies into war use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies capture slaves engage in child labour exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein but an opponent also of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops law enforcement workers and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

We need to decide that we will not go to war whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media because war in our time is always indiscriminate a war against innocents a war against children.

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects their wives their children their families their neighbours? How can you justify this?

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

If you want to fight a war on drugs sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness with poverty with war with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle waged in love and in the passion for survival.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

One is a child when one has a child. No one says 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Everyone who knows me will know the truth which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Tell the children the truth.